A Complete Bridge Management Platform
Kinemetrics Management Infrastructure Platform for Bridges
KMIBridge is a complete platform designed to help you immediately understand the impact of events on your structures, eliminate guesswork, and enable better informed decision making to ensure safe and compliant operations and improve response during emergency situations.
Bridges are the most critical component of a transportation network.
Catastrophic consequences result from bridge failures due to earthquakes and other events, as the disruption to transportation of a region carries a disproportionately high cost. This makes reliable assessment of bridge condition and safety indispensable.
KMIBridge puts a complete bridge management and earthquake response platform under your control.
Manage your portfolio of bridges with a combination of smart sensing technology, real-time processing, and predictive computations. Automated information tools deliver a solution tailored to your unique needs to ensure safe and compliant operational continuity.
Leverage practically any type of sensor to monitor the condition and performance of your structure in real-time
Understand gradual changes to your structures to address their impact before they become costly problems
Immediately understand the impact of seismic and other events on your structures to eliminate guesswork and enable better-informed decision making
Manage the unique requirements of all your structures from a single tool to maintain operational continuity
KMIBridge SHM performs automated structural assessments to provide continuous information, rapid notifications and state of health reports by leveraging a combination of smart sensing technology and predictive engineering computations. Following a comprehensive evaluation, an effective structural health monitoring solution is provided, based on the specific needs of your structure and stakeholders. KMIBridge supports practically any type of sensor, including accelerometers, dynamic strain gauges, tiltmeters, anemometers, and more, ensuring that any kind of monitoring data you require is available to you. The inclusion of world-class Kinemetrics instrumentation ensures that your SHM system will have maximum data return and unmatched reliability.
Digital Twins are used to characterize and track the behavior of the bridge over time. These models are continually updated by data collected by the SHM components of KMIBridge. Simulations of normal operating conditions as well as extreme loads are used to characterize the expected behavior of the bridge. Discrepancies between the expected behavior and the measured performance of the physical bridge may indicate damage or vulnerabilities.
By measuring performance over time, the lifespan of the structure can be better understood, and potential failure mechanisms can be identified early, enabling appropriate preventative measures to be taken.
During an earthquake or other event, KMIBridge AER detects structural motion and automatically provides alerts on the exceedance of design performance criteria for an immediate understanding of the possible impact on the bridge. Information from sensors and real-time calculations provide actionable information on the level of impact, and the required response steps. Decision-making is simplified and guesswork is eliminated by immediate access to critical information tailored to the unique aspects of your specific bridge.
The better you understand the long-term performance of your bridges, the better prepared you are to make management decisions and react to changing needs before they become costly.
KMIBridge CCS provides a redundant high-end data center that houses tools for monitoring the state-of-health of all deployed hardware, real-time data acquisition, and processing software systems with automated reporting and dissemination functions. Information and alerting are provided for each connected sensor and system via a robust software control panel, simplifying routine maintenance procedures, and ensuring that any issues are identified before they become expensive problems.
The Platform’s secure data repository monitors and delivers information relating to the SHM system for each connected bridge. All data associated with operational tasks are available and presented to support maintenance decision-making and priority ranking.
In addition, KMIBridge can be integrated with existing control systems via standard communications protocols. This minimizes the time and effort required to implement and commission KMIBridge within your facilities.
The KMIBridge platform was designed specifically to meet the needs of bridge owners and operators. We review your organizational needs and compliance requirements to ensure that you have the documentation you need to address internal procedures and external regulations.
Deployed in dozens of bridge networks worldwide, KMIBridge delivers the information you need to meet the needs of all your stakeholders. Having all relevant information at your fingertips provides increased confidence in your operational procedures, the safety of your bridges, regulatory compliance, and your overall management decisions.
Since 1969, Kinemetrics, its subsidiaries, and partners have been the global market leaders in designing technologies, products, and solutions for monitoring earthquakes and their effects on people and structures. Our products represent the de facto world standards.